Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a safe-cracker in this distinctive, ruminative take on tough-guy archetypes and genre conventions, from 1962
Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1962 thriller Le Doulos is rereleased in connection with a complete retrospective for his centenary at London’s BFI Southbank. The title means “hat”, slang for informer, stoolpigeon, rat or grass, and it’s a moody, ruminative lowlife crime drama winding up with as many corpses on the floor as Hamlet, and pungent with the sweaty maleness of Melville’s tough-guy pictures.
Related: Jean-Pierre Melville: cinematic poet of the lowlife and criminal
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Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1962 thriller Le Doulos is rereleased in connection with a complete retrospective for his centenary at London’s BFI Southbank. The title means “hat”, slang for informer, stoolpigeon, rat or grass, and it’s a moody, ruminative lowlife crime drama winding up with as many corpses on the floor as Hamlet, and pungent with the sweaty maleness of Melville’s tough-guy pictures.
Related: Jean-Pierre Melville: cinematic poet of the lowlife and criminal
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- 8/11/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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